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Chinmay Naik

CEO @One2N

I help companies solve complex backend, infrastructure, and reliability challenges with cloud-native solutions. Outside of work, I occasionally try my hand at tabla and unwind with the odd game of Age of Empires.

Blogs published by Chinmay Naik.

Blogs published by Chinmay Naik.

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Why your Architecture should start with Questions, not boxes

Chinmay Naik

CEO @One2N

TL;DR: Architecture should start by asking constraint questions about volume, scale, team skills, budget, and business goals, not by copying what big tech does. Use curious questions ("Help me understand why?") instead of performance questions ("Why didn't anyone think of this?"). Stay with systems long enough to see them fail in production to learn which questions actually matter.

March 5, 2026 | 4 min read

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Prayogshala - The Engineering Laboratory at One2N

Chinmay Naik

CEO @One2N

We created Prayogshala, One2N’s internal engineering lab, to capture our learnings, experiments and knowledge base. See how it helps engineers get better by asking "why" before "how".

February 2, 2026 | 4 min read

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All software is assembled

Chinmay Naik

CEO @One2N

Learn why modern software development relies more on strategic assembly of third-party components over building them from scratch.

April 8, 2025 | 4 min read

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Understanding MLOps from a software engineers' perspective

Harsh Mishra

SRE @One2N

Spandan Ghosh

Content @One2N

Chinmay Naik

CEO @One2N

Jaideep Khandelwal

CTO @One2N

A comprehensive overview of MLOps for software engineers, covering key concepts, challenges, and best practices. Learn about knowledge silos, the MLOps lifecycle, automation, versioning, experiment tracking, and more.

July 30, 2024 | 7 min read

Talks by Chinmay Naik.

Talks by Chinmay Naik.

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Solving Synthetic Data generation using LLMs | mitramadal.ai EP2 - 2026

Chinmay Naik

CEO @One2N

In this talk at mitramandal.ai EP2, Chinmay Naik (Founder & CEO, One2N) walks through how One2N solved the problem of synthetic data generation using LLMs - covering the real-world use cases that drove it, why anonymization falls short, and how they built a tool that uses LLMs for schema generation and deterministic faker-based data generation.

February 21, 2026 | 36 MIN

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UNIX Philosophy for Modern Engineers | Command Line Heroes

Chinmay Naik

CEO @One2N

Command Line Heroes is a new meetup series for developers, SREs, and terminal enthusiasts who love working with the command line. ​Our episode 1 kicks off with real-world stories, and hands-on challenges along with a geek out session that let's your show off your terminal setup, or learn from ones who do!

August 23, 2025 | 21 MIN

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DORA Metrics or Theatrics? What to Measure, What to Ignore, and How to Improve | One2N Bits Ep. 2

Jaideep Khandelwal

CTO @One2N

Chinmay Naik

CEO @One2N

Chinmay and Jaideep talk about DORA metrics: what they are, when they matter, and how to use them without turning it into measurement theater. From deployment frequency to time to recover, they cover how these metrics reflect engineering culture, platform maturity, and real business impact.

August 21, 2025 | 15 MIN

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AWS Billing Nightmares: Hidden Costs That Can Burn Your Budget | One2N Bits Ep. 1

Pranay Narang

SRE @One2N

Chinmay Naik

CEO @One2N

Dive into the world of cloud cost horrors with Pranay and Chinmay in the premiere episode of One2N Bits! In this quick 5-minute chat, we uncover real-world AWS billing scares that catch even seasoned teams off guard from massive EBS volume costs on unused disks to sneaky networking fees and the sudden spike from public IP billing.

July 28, 2025 | 5 MIN

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Pragmatic Software Engineering Stories from the Trenches | PuneFOSS 3.0

Chinmay Naik

CEO @One2N

At FOSS United Pune, Chinmay Naik, Founder of One2N shared real-world war stories. From debugging mysteries to incident response chaos, this was all about the messy, behind-the-scenes moments that teach you how to build better software.

April 5, 2025 | 30 MIN

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A beginners guide to understand Kubernetes using Restaurant Analogy | DevOpsDays Kerala 2024

Chinmay Naik

CEO @One2N

Kubernetes is 10+ years old, yet one of the most common complaints about it is that it’s much harder for newcomers to learn. This talk aims to fix this. If we can make Kubernetes approachable for developers, we can have a massive positive impact on its adoption.

September 28, 2024 | 29 MIN

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Go Concurrency Powering Gigabyte Scale Data Pipelines

Chinmay Naik

CEO @One2N

In this talk, I'll share how we built a real-world data pipeline in Go to migrate gigabytes of data from MongoDB to PostgreSQL in a streaming fashion. You'll learn how to leverage Go's concurrency features to build and scale such a system. Join me to see Go's concurrency in action and discover how it can be used to power large-scale data processing tasks efficiently.

July 26, 2024 | 29 MIN

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Monitoring the Future: Insights from VictoriaMetrics with Aliaksandr Valialkin

Chinmay Naik

CEO @One2N

In this inaugural episode, Chinmay Naik welcomes Aliaksandr Valialkin, Co-founder and CTO of VictoriaMetrics, to discuss the latest trends and innovations in monitoring and observability. They explore the challenges of scaling monitoring systems, the role of open-source solutions, and the future of monitoring in the cloud-native era.

June 28, 2024 | 93 MIN

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From DevOps to MLOps - Scaling ML models to 2 million API requests per day

Chinmay Naik

CEO @One2N

Learn how to deploy and scale Machine Learning models to 2 Million+ requests/day using MLOps best practices. In this talk, you’ll learn how to go from data preparation to deployment to scaling ML models that can run at large scale - all without breaking the bank.

June 6, 2024 | 34 MIN

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Avoid overengineering & big ball of mud 7 lessons for maintaining the balance

Chinmay Naik

CEO @One2N

Teams in technology companies are often in a “tug of war” with themselves. They have to balance between “over-engineering” on one side and a “big ball of mud” on the other. They must maintain this balance to build software for today that can also scale for tomorrow. This talk covers how to do that.

April 1, 2024 | 28 MIN

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Optimizing Application Performance - A first-principles perspective

Chinmay Naik

CEO @One2N

What does it take to optimize application performance? - Vertical scaling vs horizontal scaling - CPU bound vs IO bound workloads - Amdahl's law to Universal Scalability Law This video covers it all.

March 12, 2024 | 62 MIN

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Introducing Cloudlens - Cloud Console in your terminal

Chinmay Naik

CEO @One2N

If you're a fan of k9s for Kubernetes, you'll love Cloudlens. It's a Terminal-based UI (TUI) for exploring AWS and GCP cloud resources. This talk was presented by Chinmay Naik at Google's DevFest Chennai in 2023. GitHub Repo: https://github.com/one2nc/cloudlens

February 21, 2024 | 15 MIN

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Growing your career with open source - FOSS Overflow

Chinmay Naik

CEO @One2N

Are you a recent grad or just started your first software job, you should watch this video. It cover how to: - get started with open source - think about career growth - why soft parts of software development matter.

December 16, 2023 | 25 MIN

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Just enough queuing theory to be dangerous

Chinmay Naik

CEO @One2N

Queues are everywhere around us - both in real life and in software systems. In this talk, you'll learn just enough queuing theory to make you better at building asynchronous and event-driven systems. You’ll understand how to monitor and scale asynchronous systems and how to do capacity planning. Although the title of the talk has the word “theory” in it, you'll understand the practical view and learn to use the principles of queueing theory in practice to solve a real-world use case at the scale of millions of requests per day.

December 4, 2023 | 70 MIN

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Lessons Learned managing a Terabyte scale database for three nines of uptime

Chinmay Naik

CEO @One2N

Listen to this talk by Chinmay Naik to understand the lessons behind managing a Terabyte scale MySQL database for three nines of uptime. This talk was delivered at RootConf's SREConf in November 2023.

December 3, 2023 | 43 MIN

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Cloudlens AWS console in your terminal

Chinmay Naik

CEO @One2N

This talk is about our work on Cloudlens - open source tool written in Go.

September 9, 2023 | 2 MIN

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How to navigate unknown codebases

Chinmay Naik

CEO @One2N

How to navigate unknown codebases? We do this by taking a use case of a todo app (Ultralist) and try to understand the codebase. Here are some key takeaways from this video: - Use the software if possible before trying to explore the code directly - Read the documentation, if available. Search for component diagrams, user flow and ER diagrams if available - Clone relevant repos locally, run https://github.com/AlDanial/cloc to understand various files - Look at configuration instead of code first. That way, you understand service dependencies - Start by exploring test cases, if available. Follow this order when reading test cases: End-to-end, Integration, Unit (to go from top to bottom) - Explore code by taking a use case instead of exploring files in random order

May 9, 2022 | 33 MIN

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Learn REST API design - OTP based Auth API

Chinmay Naik

CEO @One2N

Learn how to design REST API with a real world example. We build an OTP based auth API with /signup, /login, /send-otp and /validate-otp features. Refer the gist - https://gist.github.com/chinmay185/60...

April 24, 2022 | 53 MIN

Stories published by Chinmay Naik.

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A curious case of Postgres choosing the wrong index
It’s a regular weekday. You're catching up on Slack, sipping your morning coffee. Then pings start coming in. A core feature on the user dashboard is down for some users. Not flaky. Down. In peak traffic hours. Support is escalating. You’re on call that week. You jump in.

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Data engineering mystery - rerouting large data in Kafka
You're a tech lead handling a large-scale data pipeline. One day, your colleague (C) pulls you into an issue related to Kafka. Here's the conversation with your colleague.

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The Mystery of Failing Database Writes
As an SRE at a growth-stage company, you're on call this week. A PagerDuty alert wakes you up. It's related to the main transactional database, so you check immediately.

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A story about a nightmare scenario for every SRE
Story time, it's about cloud security failures and why good engineering practices matter, especially during the One to N journey. As a team lead, you're woken up by an AWS billing alarm!

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Curious case of debugging failing webhook API requests
A short debugging story to start off the new year. Dev: Our backend has a webhook API that a third party will invoke over the internet. The customer team from that third party is on the call. They are getting a 500 error when making this API call.

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A curious story of debugging Machine Learning model performance
You're woken up by a p90 latency-related alert. This alert is for the main API service, so you start investigating right away.

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Database Reliability - Migrating Terabyte from self-hosted MySQL to GCP CloudSQL
You're a lead SRE and CTO asks you to manage and scale a self-managed 6-node MySQL cluster with 1.5+ TB data on production. You do what it takes, a few months pass, but now, it's time to move to a managed service. You think this should be straightforward, but it's not so easy.

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Database Reliability - Zero Downtime Schema Migrations with MySQL
You join a team as lead SRE, and the CTO asks you to manage and scale a self-managed 6-node MySQL cluster on production.

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Migrating Terabytes of metrics data with zero downtime
You're an SRE responsible for VictoriaMetrics deployment with 30 Million time series/min. The CTO wants you to drastically reduce the costs for this infra without compromising reliability.

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Building Pull Request-based ephemeral Preview environments on Kubernetes
A CTO of a company calls you. They just migrated from Heroku to AWS on EKS. He's happy with the migration but wants you to build Heroku's "Ephemeral Preview Apps" on Kubernetes.

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My app is slow. Can you fix it?
A founder of a recently funded company calls you. He wants you to come in and fix webapp performance problems. You have been in similar situations before and want another thrill, so you say:

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Taming GCP networking cloud costs
Here's a story of a pragmatic tech lead who understands networking fundamentals like iptables, packet routing and NAT saved thousands of $$$ on cloud costs.

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A case of Terabyte scale backup and recovery solution
You are a tech lead who's tasked to backup 1.5TB (yes, not a typo, a terabyte) of data DAILY to S3. You're not really sure about any other background about this requirement, so you start asking some questions:

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Not all debugging stories have a happy ending
Sometimes you have to decide what problems are worth solving and only focus on those. You migrate application services running on VMs to K8s. Everything works fine, except for one service.

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A curious case of slow APIs
You're a tech lead who's just joined a team and on your first day, the CTO tells you: "Our video processing API is very slow, looks like it's a problem with AWS EFS that we are using. Take a look and fix it."

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Unblocking Team members
Teammate(T): Hey, I am blocked since I don't have AWS access credentials for the last 2 days. I am unable to proceed with any work. You: Well, have you raised a request to get the credentials?

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